drone doodles and birds

1st quick practice doodles of drones, white ink on sugar paper

sketchbook invert drones vs birds practice, black indian ink

the drawings above are amateur, the black on white works better, I should have used acrylic but love the flow and controls from using the ink. Trying to paint geometric shapes takes patience, a steady hand, only one cup of coffee and my photocopies. it shut my head up nicely on a wednesday when my head creaks from the necessity of being non-judgemental, controlled and empathetic, to  suddenly feeling like i need to do/made/create because it's a wednesday. It's been a heavy week at work, going over a history of someone that died suddenly whom i was fond of and trying to find the words to write a coroners report about them in sharp succinct cool prose. death wishes, near death misses, 2 days that felt like a week. so painting drones and their sick associations was lovely light tongue-in-cheek relief.

i never got why people would paint toy soldiers or aeroplanes. think i it felt embarassing. a smack of regressive nostalgia to it or some such crap. but i've grown to love the concentration, and stillness that comes from concentrating on something and painting drones is mindless in its own way so who i am to judge.

slow copying somewhere quiet, how resentful voices would be drowned out, shouts of we'll start without out you, all the intrusive noise of others, meanwhile the slow silent dip of brush in ink and mark making away the racket.